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THE BOOK OF<br/>
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CHAPTER 17
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Job speaks of the sorrow of death and of the grave in that day when the body returns to the dust.
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My</span> <sup>a</sup><a href="job/17/1a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB spirit is consumed.">breath</a> is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves <i>are ready</i> for me.
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<i>Are there</i> not mockers with me?  and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?
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<sup>a</sup><a href="job/17/3a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE a pledge.">Lay</a> down now, put me in a surety with thee; who <i>is</i> he <i>that</i> will strike hands with me?
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For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt <i>them.</i>
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He that speaketh <sup>a</sup><a href="job/17/5a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Flattery.">flattery</a> to <i>his</i> friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
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He hath made me also a byword of the people; and <sup>a</sup><a href="job/17/6a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB I am as an abomination before men.">aforetime</a> I was as a tabret.
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Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members <i>are</i> as a shadow.
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Upright <i>men</i> shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.
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The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath <sup>a</sup><a href="job/17/9a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Ne. 25: 16; D&C 88: 86.">clean</a> hands shall be stronger and stronger.
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But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find <i>one</i> wise <i>man</i> among you.
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My <sup>a</sup><a href="job/17/11a" mark="a" type="A" title="Job 7: 6.">days</a> are past, my purposes are broken off, <i>even</i> the thoughts of my heart.
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They change the night into day: the light <i>is</i> short because of darkness.
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If I wait, the grave <i>is</i> mine <sup>a</sup><a href="job/17/13a" mark="a" type="A" title="Eccl. 12: 5; Alma 40: 11.">house</a>: I have made my bed in the darkness.
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I have said to corruption, Thou <i>art</i> my father: to the worm, <i>Thou</i> <i>art</i> my mother, and my sister.
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And where <i>is</i> now my hope?  as for my hope, who shall see it?
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They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when <i>our</i> rest together <i>is</i> in the dust.
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